#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills
4/2/2024
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Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Tools & Apps
- (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
- (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
- (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
- (00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
- (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
- (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
- Applications & Business
- (00:30:40) AI companies lose $190 billion in market cap after Alphabet and Microsoft report
- (00:34:25) Cruise wasn’t hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators — it just had bad internet
- (00:40:32) Hugging Face teams up with Google to accelerate open AI development
- (00:43:33) Elon Musk's xAI eyes $6 billion funding to challenge ChatGPT maker OpenAI
- (00:47:22) AI Chip Startup Rebellions Snags Funding to Challenge Nvidia
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:55:50) Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
- (01:05:15) EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
- (01:09:20) Are Vision Transformers More Data Hungry Than Newborn Visual Systems?
- (01:15:52) Circuit Component Reuse Across Tasks in Transformer Language Models
- (01:20:30) A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
- Policy & Safety
- (01:22:45) Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
- (01:27:50) OpenAI and Google will be required to notify the government about AI models
- (01:32:12) The campaign to take down the Biden AI executive order
- (01:33:06) Rep. Jeff Jackson Introduces Bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to Stop China from Remotely Using American Technology to Build AI Tools
- (01:39:00) AI Startup ElevenLabs Bans Account Blamed for Biden Audio Deepfake
- (01:40:06) How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
- (01:45:15) Outro
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